Blog posts about Git

Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.39.

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar w...

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.

A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active reposit...

This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git's internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git ...

We're examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distrib...

Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your h...

This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom q...

This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses h...

The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safel...

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.

Ensuring secure access to your source code is more important than ever. Git Credential Manager helps make that easy.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and...

To celebrate this most recent release, here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes intr...

The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused porti...

GitHub has been at the forefront of security key adoption for many years. We were an early adopter of Universal 2nd F...

At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing rep...

The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. ...